Ayrshire Roads Alliance chiefs claim they had fixed their problems months before scores of drivers were hit with fines.
Road bosses are refusing to cough up for fines dished out to drivers at faulty parking machines.
We told last month how scores of drivers had been hit with £50 tickets since the turn of the year while making use of the 'two-hour free' window in Ayr town centre.
The initiative has been in play since last year in a bid to draw much needed shopping footfall into the High Street.
Chiefs at the Ayrshire Roads Alliance (ARA) were forced to admit that "connection" issues in a number of their machines had caused the problem and pledged to honour appeals from affected drivers.
But they are now throwing out those appeals - claiming all faults had been fixed before Christmas.
Prestwick resident Bill Briceland is one of those who received a ticket in early February, despite having registered his licence plate number at a ticket machine.
His appeal has since been thrown out.
He told Ayrshire Live: "Someone is telling porkies because they're now claiming this was all fixed months before my ticket. What about all the other drivers that came forward last month to say they were in the same boat as me?
"The Ayrshire Roads Alliance promised to cancel fines for tickets that were wrongly handed out and they should honour that."
Last month, ARA admitted that despite fixes being carried out, their machines were not "infallible" and said fines for wrongly issued tickets would be binned.
However, their stance has now hardened.
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